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...there are moments when Browne realizes his genius. Combining natural imagery with personal observations, he reaches his purest emotional level on "The Fuse." This song clicks like clockwork, both musically and lyrically. As he shifts from soft to hard rock during the track, Browne conveys his apocalyptic vision of time as a fuse...
...Clockwork Orange at 3 & 7:30; Performance...
Director Stanley Kubrick has yet to show that he can actually direct actors--from a few of his films one gets the feeling he must treat them with the same disdain he harbors for the big bad world. Clockwork Orange (like Dr. Strangelove,) shines, though, because it accommodates both Kubrick's cerebral and perverse artsiness and a free-lance format for Malcolm MacDowell. MacDowell requires no coaching or handholding here; he does for amoral punkdom what the Bowery Boys never could. The union of these two visionary hard-guys still proves chilling, and no amount of humane breath could melt...
...retrospective of the work of this venerable figure testifies, his achievement is more modest and realistic. In the 200-odd works that make up "Calder's Universe," as the show is called, there is little of the real universe, but a pervasive flavor of its metaphors: orreries, planetary clockwork, automata. The Copernican epicycles turn out to be circus rings, and the vast music of the spheres comes down to the delicious noise of appetite rubbing against humor...
Harvard opened the scoring at 18:45 on a clockwork goal which was met with shouts of "It's about time," from the Crimson bench. Lee Nelson took the ball from midfield and traded passes with Dave Acorn leaving him one-on-one with Dartmouth goalie Lyman Missimer...